The Dictatorship of Marabec is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Maddox with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 24.701 billion Marabecians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mardanum City. The average income tax rate is 39.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Marabecian economy, worth a remarkable 4,627 trillion becs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 187,332 becs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous Marabecian bee, the 3rd Airborne Beekeepers are the most feared regiment in the Marabecian military, government statistics suggest 115% of the population love Maddox, and Maddox's recent "I have a dream that we will fight them by raking muck on the beaches" speech seems a little derivative to many. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Marabec's national animal is the Mardanum Raptor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Marabec is ranked 40,617^th in the world and 7^th in The Great Chili for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 175.48 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.